Ten Thousand Buddhas by Amanda Giacomini is a worldwide, highly sought after art project, including large scale murals, fine art paintings, works on paper, and apparel.
The Ten Thousand Buddhas project has been featured on the National Geographic Channel, New York Magazine, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Mantra Magazine, Origin Magazine, and Marin Magazine.
The story behind Ten Thousand Buddhas:
I think like the first year was 99. The second year was maybe like 700 or 800 and then the third year was like thousands and the fourth year thousands. And it just kinda picked up steam.
It was inspired by a trip I took to the Adjanta Caves in India where I saw this amazing, ancient Buddhist mural of 1,000 little monks sitting together and I wanted to go back there, I wanted to see it again.
It just had so much resonance for me that I started to paint Buddhas myself. And once I started, I just couldn't stop.
When I first committed to making the first 10,000, the first painting of 99 took me almost a year. So I was like, uh oh, if I do 10,000, I may not do it in this lifetime, unless I find a way to speed up my process. So that's when I started to learn more street art techniques and I learned about stenciling and wheat pasting and print making. And then once I got into those modalities, the project really got momentum.
I wanted to paint them so it first looks like they're all the same, and then as you look closer, you see that they're all taking different gestures because that, to me, is also kinda how we look at people. We might look at like, oh these people are all the same and then we see the uniqueness of each one and sorta that play between we're all the same, but we're all a little different too.
When I'm really in it and painting for a while, or doing a really big mural, sometimes I just drop into a place that it's so light-filled. It's just, I don't feel any aches and pains in my body, my mind is completely steady and one-pointed, and it really is similar to a state of yoga.
Especially with this project, it's about consistent effort over a long period of time. That's one of the yoga sutras. Abhyasa and vairagya. It's about being consistent and steady with our practice and being patient because it takes a long time for them to take affect.
The number is less important now than the spirit of the project, which is to spread a message of compassion and connectivity and
community across the globe. And I feel like the initial goal was important to get me to expand my vision and now that I'm coming up close to it, I just hope to keep going.
And that mission has no end.
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